Business first; pleasure afterwards.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.